Response-deprivation hypothesis (RDH)
The belief that a low-probability behavior can act as a reinforcer to evoke a higher-probability behavior if access to the less-preferred behavior is restricted below baseline levels.
G. Behavior-Change Procedures
Restitutional overcorrection
A positive punishment overcorrection procedure where, following the occurrence of a challenging behavior, the client is required to repair the damage caused by their behavior,and engage in additional behavior to
Seclusion time-out
A type of time-out procedure in which the client is placed in a time-out room for a time period and locked in.
Self-administered consequences
A self-management procedure in which one organizes specific consequences to be delivered following the occurrence or nonoccurrence of one’s own behavior to be delivered by others or by oneself.
Self-directed systematic desensitization
A self-management procedure used to reduce anxieties and phobias that involves substituting muscle relaxation for challenging behaviors. Anxiety or fear-provoking events are ranked on an intensity scale and gradually exposed
Self-evaluation
In self-management procedures, this is the process of assessing one’s own progress by comparing self-monitoring data to a pre-determined criterion.
Self-instruction
A self-management procedure that involves providing oneself with verbal instructions (covert or overt) to prompt one’s own desired behaviors.
Self-management
Behavior analytic procedures that target one’s own behavior by defining the desired target response (controlled response), programming behaviors to help evoke that desired target response (controlling response), and arranging reinforcers
Self-management (in programming for generalization)
A method to program for generalization that involves teaching the client self-management behaviors that will enable them to prompt and reinforce their own target behavior.
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Self-monitoring
In self-management procedures, this is the process of systematically recording data on one’s own behavior.
Shaping
A strategy for teaching novel behaviors using successive approximations to a terminal response, which are differentially reinforced until the client is able to differentiate the terminal response from the successive
Shaping across response topographies
A shaping method in which each successive approximation varies in form from the other approximations and the ultimate terminal response.
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